“…Topics include plays from the early "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" to the "Jolly" of more recent times, two films, "House of Games" and "Homicide", and Mamet's first novel, "The Village"…”

“…The author concludes that the work of the 1960s was transformative precisely because it was "mainstream" - central to the visual and economic culture of its time…”

“…This timely collection of essays offers one of the first serious efforts to assess the record of American foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century. …”

“…"Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national language. …”

“…Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the US, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book, Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for reconciliation with Beijing. …”

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“…In Children's Homes, Peter Higginbotham explores the history of the institutions in Britain that were used as a substitute for children's 'natural' homes. From the Tudor times to the present day, this fascinating book answers questions such as: Who founded and ran all these institutions? …”

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“…The book investigates how in recent times, more and more fatwas are issued collectively rather than emanating from an individual scholar. …”

“…The main difference between these two classes is that field models prescribe how a quantity characterizing neural activity (such as average depolarization of a neural population) evolves over both space and time as opposed to mass models which characterize the evolution of this quantity over time only and assume that all neurons of a population are located at (approximately) the same point. …”

“…His first commercial work was for Archaeological Services, Durham University, before moving on to become a Lecturer in Archaeological Practice at the University of Liverpool, where he taught for three years. During this time Ben began his project management work, undertaking both commercial and research excavations, and survey projects. …”

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“…The insulin signalling pathway is now recognized as a central factor in the timing of cell proliferation, growth, longevity, reproduction, and reproductive diapause, as well as social behaviour. …”

“…On the whole, since epigenetics is fast-acting and reversible, enabling dynamic developmental communication between hosts and symbionts at several different time scale, we argue that it could account for the enormous plasticity that characterizes the interactions between all the organisms living symbiotically on our planet…”

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“…Sie werden Schritt für Schritt durch den vollständigen Mischprozess geführt: angefangen bei der Ausstattung des Studios über Timing-Anpassungen und die perfekten Mischverhältnisse bis hin zu individuellen Effekten. …”

“…Throughout the focus is on memory technologies which are complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible, including embedded floating gate and charge trapping EEPROM/Flash along with FeRAMS, FeFETs, MRAMs and ReRAMs. Provides a timely, highly practical look at state-of-the-art IoT memory implementations for an array of product applications Synthesizes basic science with original analysis of memory technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) based on the authors' extensive experience in the field Focuses on practical and timely applications throughout Features numerous illustrations, tables, application requirements, and photographs Considers memory related security issues in IoT devices Memories for the Intelligent Internet of Things is a valuable working resource for electrical engineers and engineering managers working in the electronics system and semiconductor industries. …”

“…What you will learn Understand the core concepts and architecture of Apache Beam Implement stateless and stateful data processing pipelines Use state and timers for processing real-time event processing Structure your code for reusability Use streaming SQL to process real-time data for increasing productivity and data accessibility Run a pipeline using a portable runner and implement data processing using the Apache Beam Python SDK Implement Apache Beam I/O connectors using the Splittable DoFn API Who this book is for This book is for data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts who want to learn how Apache Beam works. …”